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Religion and Society

Subject Areas: Religious Studies
Publisher: Berghahn Journals - Berghahn Books
ISSN: 2150-9298
SJR: 5

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Introduction: Place, Horizon, and Imaginary

Hausner, Sondra L.; Coleman, Simon

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120101
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Portrait: Diana L. Eck

Eck, Diana L.; Hawley, John Stratton; Mehrotra, Rahul; Hausner, Sondra L.

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120102
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Beyond the Human Horizon

Mittermaier, Amira

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120103

Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on...
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State Legibility and Mind Legibility in the Original Political Society

Buitron, Natalia; Steinmüller, Hans

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120104

In one of his last great provocations, Marshall Sahlins describes the ‘original political society’ as a society where supposedly ‘egalitarian’ relations between humans are subordinated to the government of metahuman beings. He argues that this government is ‘a state’, but what kind of state does...
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Critical Thin: Haunting Sufis and the Also-Here of Migration in Berlin

Kasmani, Omar

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120105

This article delves into the spectral and affective reserves of Zikr, the Sufi exercise of godly remembrance. It explores how performances of religious longing broaden the moral experience of a post-migrant Berlin by offering contemporary believers critically thin zones of hypersocial contact...
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Totemic Outsiders: Ontological Transformation among the Makushi

Whitaker, James Andrew

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120106

This article examines how sociological totemism mediates the co-existence of animism and an emerging naturalism among the Makushi in Surama Village (Guyana) within contexts of interactions with outsiders. Since the 1830s, such contexts have varied from missionization to eco-tourism, which Surama...
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The Christian Right and Refugee Rights: The Border Politics of Anti-communism and Anti-discrimination in South Korea

Heo, Angie

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120107

This article examines how the language and logics of the Christian Right in South Korea contributed to the propagation of anti-asylum sentiment during the Yemeni refugee crisis in 2018. By analyzing the Christian Right's historical origins in anti-communism and its moral opposition to...
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How the Bible Works: Russian Baptist Faith as Text

Mikeshin, Igor

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120108

This article is about Russian Baptists’ perception of their faith as a text. I argue that they practice their lived faith by interiorizing the language of the Russian Synodal Translation of the Bible as their ‘language of reasoning’. I support this claim by analyzing two aspects of faith: as an...
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How to Conceptualize an Introductory Course on the Academic Study of Religion: Systematic Reflections and Exemplary Answers

Quack, Johannes

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120109

How should instructors conceptualize an introductory course on the academic study of religion? This article combines an abstract and broader review of different conceptualizations of such courses with hands-on discussions of two exemplary teaching models. The ‘case study model’ applies different...
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Introduction: Communities Reimagining Sharedness in Belief and Practice

Hillewaert, Sarah; Tetreault, Chantal

2021 Religion and Society

doi:10.3167/arrs.2021.120110

In this introduction, we bring together diverse anthropological considerations of community, belonging, and belief to argue for a reconsideration of the notion of ‘sharedness’ that often underlies these concepts. Scholars have long critiqued the use of ‘community’ for its broad application and...

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